Happy times
Closing Church Fenton as a proper station was criminal. keeping it on as it is now is downright cruel. I spent three and a half very happy years there at the end of the eighties and it was mega. Everyone knew each other it was that small. I got involved in all aspects of stn life, living in the mess, running the footy team and the stn mag, and heavily involved in the theatre club. Also fire flight commander - what a great bunch of lads they were, mostly. I ran the weekly quiz in the White Horse in the village - miserable b****rds and drank ever so occasionally in the Fenton Flyer.
One that deserved to be closed - West Drayton. Good location so close to London, great community feel in the mess, but what a dump the mess was. Missed the closing down party which apparently was one hell of a night. Should have developed North Luffenham to house London Mil rather than move to Swanwick.